I stiil fly 72mhz from horror stories I have heard and planes that I have seen go down.After hearing all the possible causes of failure it seems that most come to the conclusion that voltage is the main culprit.The other culprit being that the receiver itself was not installed in the proper location as per instructions.

 I will be switching to 2.4ghz as soon as I start my next scale build.Though nothing is bulletproof,I'm sure that this technology will be better than the old way.Hopefully by then all issues will have been worked out and I will have more confidence in them.

Just read that Horizon (UK) have recalled their AR6250 receiver!  they have received reports of customers loosing RF link ... 'mostly in carbon fibre applications'

 A good while ago i bought 2 of these rx's which failed to bind! they where replaced asap! Now all rx's of this type have to be sent back to Horizon..  I would guess the large demand for 2.4 of all types has affected quality controll at source?  Any USA users having problems with Spektrum/JR 2.4?   C.

Let me try this again.  I lost my reply when I hit the watch post for replies.

I voted no.  I have 2 planes and one transmitter on 2.4, a Park Zone P-51 and Sukhoi Su-26 micro.  I have plenty of others on 27 and 72.  I have had almost no radio related troubles since 1962 except:

2 in-flight battery failures.

one failed switch

one failed crystal socket.

A number of metal-to-metal issues

Three cases of interference from other radios on the freq I was using.

One untraceable sudden loss of range.

Two cases of image interference.

Lost one battery when it fell out during a split S.

Two servo failures.

One Electrolytic capacitor failure in a transmitter.

2 gimbal failures.

One reciever capacitor failure on the ground during taxi.

One reciever failure because of picking up water into the fuse during taxi.

Flyaways because I forgot to rewind escapement rubber.

Lots of dumb-thumbing, even though Im a pincher.

This includes flying with the old Super Regerative recievers.

And, I've seen two cases of swamping because of reflections, once with an old Sampey 404 getting too close to a radio tower around 1964, and more recently at our field, on channel 46 FM only when the operators of a nieghboring land fill left a crane on the property line with the boom up.  No problem on my 46 AM.

Besides, I'm newly retired, and immediately replacing my current equipment with perhaps 2 transmitters an 12 to 15 recievers doesn't make any economic sense.  And to me, computer radios are more work than their worth.

Good grief 50+!  How do you remember all that?  I have trouble figuring out what I did yesterday! 

I just got me a new 2.4!    Happy so far, but trying to get used to not pulling out the antenna . 

At my age, I am starting to find that it's easier to remember things from 15years ago than 15 minutes ago.  I guess I might remember most of those because they were so few, and often under memorable situations.  Like losing the battery in the split S was after getting caught up in the Right HAnd/Left Hand landing approach arguement.  My solution was to split S into the landing.  Just being a SA.  And most of of what I might have been tempted to  call interference or radio problems really probably fall under the guise of dumb thumbs.

I haven't had any problem with not having to extend the antenna with the 2.4.  I am more worried about forgetting to extend the antenna on my other radios.  I have caught myself at the flightline with the engine running ready to taxi out and still having the antenna retracted.  It can be very easy to become lazy.